i remember reading a theory that peach staged the entire events of super mario sunshine so that after the piantas realized that they had been keeping mario, a known hero of the mushroom kingdom with a stable record of do-goodery, hostage for crimes he did not commit, they'd be on thin ice and would have no choice but to allow peach to assimilate the island as a territory of the mushroom kingdom. bowser played along because he wants any excuse he can to be around peach
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